Bard Madness: Round 2 is here!

While round one of our Bard Madness literature bracket didn’t provide a lot of suspense, round two promises to be a doozy.

The first sixteen matchups went mostly chalk (that is, the higher seeds won) in dominant fashion, but in round 2 we have matchups like these to vote on:

• Julius Caesar vs Twelfth Night
• Merchant of Venice vs Much Ado About Nothing
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream vs As You Like it

Make your voice heard by voting now! Round two voting ends March 24th.

Click here to see the update bracket.

Here’s a breakdown of round 1 voting:

• Hamlet defeated Timon of Athens unanimously. Not even one vote for poor Timon.
• The Taming of the Shrew defeated The Winter’s Tale with 70% of the vote.
• Julius Caesar defeated All’s Well That Ends Well with 73% of the vote.
• Twelfth Night defeated Measure for Measure with 85% of the vote.
• King Lear defeated King John with 94% of the vote.
• Richard III defeated Richard II with 71% of the vote.
• Henry V defeated Cymbeline with 87% of the vote.
• Antony and Cleopatra defeated Coriolanus with 73% of the vote.
• The Tempest defeated Pericles with 93% of the vote.
• Othello defeated Romeo and Juliet with 52% of the vote.
• The Merchant of Venice defeated Love’s Labours Lost with 85% of the vote.
• Much Ado About Nothing defeated Henry VIII with 92% of the vote.
• Macbeth defeated Troilus and Cressida with 95% of the vote.
• A Comedy of Errors defeated Henry IV with 54% of the vote. Upset!
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream defeated Two Gentlemen of Verona with 90% of the vote.
• As You Like It defeated The Merry Wives of Windsor with 89% of the vote.